[Characteristics of the rheological properties of the blood, thrombocyte function and hemodynamics in ischemic heart disease after the amputation of the extremities of patients in a state of prolonged hypokinesia].

Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in patients after amputation of the limbs runs a course with little manifest clinical symptoms, but with high risk of development of myocardial infarction with a lethal outcome. In patients after amputation of limbs there is a decrease of the blood stroke volume, increase of the total peripheral resistance and also marked disorders of the blood rheology and the function of platelets. In patients with IHD after amputation of the limbs for obliterating diseases of the vessels such changes are manifest in disorders of the microrheological properties of the blood (the rate of aggregation of red cell and the stability of red cell aggregates). Physical rehabilitation and prostheses in patients of this groups must be realized under careful cardiological control.